| Hint | Answer | % Correct |
|---|---|---|
| Father of the nation and the leader of the nationalist movement against the British rule | {Mahatma} Gandhi | 86%
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| Primer Minister of India since 2014 | Narenda Modi | 85%
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| Prime Minister of India who was assassinated in 1984 | {Indira} Gandhi | 83%
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| First Prime Minister of India and the dominant voice in Indian politics from Independence | Jawaharlal Nehru | 82%
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| Actor and Bollywood superstar also known as SRK | Shahrukh Khan | 63%
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| Sixth Prime Minister of India until his assassination in 1991 | {Rajiv} Gandhi | 60%
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| Bengali poet, writer and the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize in Literature | Rabindranath Tagore | 55%
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| Regarded as one of the greatest batsmen in the history of cricket | Sachin Tendulkar | 51%
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| Oscar-winning composer and the most popular name of Indian music | A. R. Rahman | 49%
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| Mughal emperor from the 1500s, considered the greatest ruler of the Mughal dynasty | Akbar | 48%
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| Miss World 2000, and now an internationally well-known singer and actress | Priyanka Chopra | 48%
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| Actress and the winner of the Miss World 1994 pageant | Aishwarya Rai Bachchan | 43%
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| Chess grandmaster and former world chess champion | Viswanathan Anand | 43%
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| British actor of Indian descent who stared in Slumdog Millionaire and the Last Airbender | Dev Patel | 42%
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| Female tennis played who was world No 1. in doubles | Sania Mirza | 42%
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| Nepali-Indian Sherpa mountaineer who was one of the first two people to reach Mount Everest | Tenzing Norgay | 38%
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| Said to have lived in the 5th to 4th century BC and is revered as the founder of Buddhism | Siddharta Gautama | 32%
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| Indian revolutionary during the 1920s and 30s | Bhagat Singh | 28%
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| Actress who rose to prominence with her film debut in the drama Slumdog Millionaire | Freida Pinto | 26%
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| Tennis player who is regarded as one of the greatest doubles tennis players ever | Leander Paes | 25%
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| Filmmaker known for movies The Sixth Sense, Unbreakable and The Village | M. Night Shyamalan | 25%
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| First and only Indian driver to compete in Formula One | Narain Karthikeyan | 15%
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| Actor who portraits Raj Koothrappali on the CBS sitcom The Big Bang Theory | Kunal Nayyar | 14%
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| Actor who made his debut in the 2012 film Life of Pi | Suraj Sharma | 9%
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| Director of movies Monsoon Wedding and Salaam Bombay | Mira Nair | 8%
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